Rog Hildreth
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Written and Performed by Rog Hildreth.
This isn't a Christmas song, but it's a new song, and I hope you like it.
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The 8th edition in my annual Butchering Seasonal Classics series, Stop The Cavalry written by Jona Lewie.
Performed by Rog Hildreth.
Additional percussion by Amanda.
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My 2016 Christmas Single!
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector)
All Alone On Christmas written by Steve Van Zandt
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My 2016 Christmas Single!
Written by Ernie Isley, Chris Jasper and Marvin Isley.
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My 2015 Christmas single. Possibly a bit over-ambitious, this one. Got a bit silly.
Written by Chris Butler
All instruments/voices: Rog Hildreth
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My 2016 Christmas Single!
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector)
All Alone On Christmas written by Steve Van Zandt
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My first attempt at a Christmas original! I've gone topical.
Written by / all instruments, voices: Rog Hildreth
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My 2015 Christmas single. Possibly a bit over-ambitious, this one. Got a bit silly.
Written by Chris Butler
All instruments/voices: Rog Hildreth
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Written by Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff, I think that this is one of the last great modern Christmas songs. I usually recycle a previous Christmas cover for the b-side, but I though I'd do a little acoustic version of this instead. It…
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Rog - voice, synths, electric guitar
Graeme - bass, acoustic guitar
Recorded Nov/Dec 2014.
Written by Howard Blake.
Rog and Graeme also make up two-fifths of Manchester band Vanity Pages.
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A dark take on the Christmas classic, written by the Reverend John Henry Hopkins Jr. in 1857.
Stick around for the synths.
All instruments and voices: Rog. Recorded November 2012.
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Another festive cover, this was recorded in December 2010.
Written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan.
(Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will happily remove the track. Thanks.)
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My 2013 Christmas single! A bluesy reading of 'Santa Baby', written by Joan Javits, Philip Springer and Tony Springer in the early 1950s.
I haven't changed the gender. That would be silly.
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Based on an improvisation by Rog Hildreth, Stuart Jewkes and Tom Goy. We used to live in university halls together and would frequently improvise songs as people entered the room. The best of these was for Riona. Stu and I recreated it here with…
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A cover of the Laura Veirs song 'Jailhouse Fire', which originally appeared on her excellent album ' The Triumphs & Travails Of Orphan Mae'. I recorded this in 2008, around the time I started demoing songs for what became 'The Anxiety Bomb'.
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You may be shocked to learn that I own a Rickenbacker 360 and I love R.E.M.
Intro/verses: G-C-Am7-Cmaj7
Chorus: Em-G-C-D
Bridge: Fmaj7-C/G-Em
What if you found you had
Your own time bomb
Never sure if and when
It could go off
Safe again
At…
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Taken from the album ‘The Weight Of Water’, from 2007. (This is a new mix, for 2014.)
Written and performed by Rog Hildreth.
Sometimes I challenge myself to write and record a song from scratch in a single day. This is a story song which…
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Just going through your tunes, you have a lot of good stuff in here. I look forward to hearing more of it!
My 2016 Christmas Single!
Written by Ernie Isley, Chris Jasper and Marvin Isley.
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An old favourite from a record I called 'The Great Erotic Novel'. I've put a new vocal on it (a bit loud I think now), at some point I'll do a fresh mix/master of the whole record.
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A cover of the Laura Veirs song 'Jailhouse Fire', which originally appeared on her excellent album ' The Triumphs & Travails Of Orphan Mae'. I recorded this in 2008, around the time I started demoing songs for what became 'The Anxiety Bomb'.
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My 2013 Christmas single! A bluesy reading of 'Santa Baby', written by Joan Javits, Philip Springer and Tony Springer in the early 1950s.
I haven't changed the gender. That would be silly.
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Excellent cover of Santa Baby Rog!
Originally from North-East England, I’ve spent the last 10 years or so living in Manchester. I’ve played in a few bands over the years and I’ve just started singing in a new one, Vanity Pages. However, this page is for my own multi-track stuff. I try and make an album every year or so and I’d love you to have a listen! Cheers.
from Manchester, United Kingdom
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